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The second startup is easier to start and harder to care about the same way A flat org chart works until there are thirty people and nobody owns the decision Handing off a function means writing down a job that lived in one person's head Mission language gets used in startup culture to justify unpaid overtime Family language in startup culture makes the first layoff feel like a betrayal Startup culture turns toxic when the founder reads disagreement as disloyalty Unlimited vacation inside a culture that rewards visible hours means nobody takes any The weekly rhythm breaks the month a key hire leaves and the replacement takes two months Ping pong tables and free lunch cost less than the salary review the team actually wanted The first serious founder fight is almost never about the product A second company inherits the first one's hiring standards and its grudges Friday demos keep a distributed startup culture from splitting into two companies The founder who answers messages at midnight sets the response time for everyone below A startup culture that celebrates firefighting teaches people to set fires Startup management spends the first year reacting and calls it being agile

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